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Caught this little fella yesterday.
Is there anything specific to do after you've had rodent squatters?
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Leave the dead one outside the door as a warning to others :giggle:

Some say peppermint oil works as a deterrent as well.
 
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Don't go thinking there's only one.
We've have mice in the bedroom at home for weeks now.
There's a 1" hole been drilled on the floor in the floor for some reason and they live in there.
Can't get in without moving the bed and wardrobe so bought an endoscope.
this is uncontrollable but at least I can see it
Been putting 3 traps down for ages, usually get at least one a night.....were up to around 23 now.
Little buggers must keep breeding


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As far as I know (I am not a zoologist):

Woodmice (the brown ones) should move back outside into their natural habitat in the spring. The grey mouse is the species that will persist indoors.
 
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I get mice really bad at my garage, it's in the middle of the country surrounded by fields and once harvest time comes they make their way to the garage.
This was the first night of traps last autumn, 8 traps, 8 mice!

I put the bodies out on what we call "the death rock" opposite the garage doors, the crows wait for them and take them away - saw one once that managed to get collect 4 in its beak in one go!

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We were lucky when we found our infestation, and a part built nest, next visit was a very pregnant female, caught one more after that.
Aren't they noisy though, neighbour told us he thought we had rats in the eaves, John is pretty deaf and has CPAP on overnight.
I manged to get into the eaves and fortunately back out, put a trap down, we only caught one no, more noise.
 
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Northernraider said:
Yes get a humane trap instead of killing the poor buggers.
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No way, tried that but you have to reduce their numbers otherwise you just get more and more which is hard enough to control when you do dispatch them permanently.

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We have used traps but now have poison packs permanently out in our attic, good quality poison not the crappy cheap stuff, and they ensure we have very little trouble with them.
 
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Just to add if you think mice are a problem in your attic then just hope you never get rats in there and in the cavity walls ... Elephants with clogs on doing a marathon dance session doesn't come close to the noise they make! :eek:
 
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Minxy said:
We have used traps but now have poison packs permanently out in our attic, good quality poison not the crappy cheap stuff, and they ensure we have very little trouble with them.
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Does that not affect the predators that can eat them like owls and foxes?

For that reason I used kill traps, I did think of using the humane ones but was worried about the damage they would do, just cost us 12k at work after one chewed through the main wiring loom. :-(

Not knocking you at all, I wasn’t sure so went for the traps.
 
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Minxy said:
Just to add if you think mice are a problem in your attic then just hope you never get rats in there and in the cavity walls ... Elephants with clogs on doing a marathon dance session doesn't come close to the noise they make! :eek:
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Had one in the attic inthe old terrace house .I complely agree sounded like the cast ove riverdance were up there but out of sync.
The rat man came in and sorted it he cleared the whole street as he said they had run of the attics
 
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Does that not affect the predators that can eat them like owls and foxes?
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Nah, we tend to find the bodies eventually so they seem just stay in the attic which is 'home' to them, bit like us when we're not well, they likely prefer to be in familiar surroundings.

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Where we used to live we were plagued with mice put traps down one morning found 2 next to a sprung trap only young ones but both dead😂
 
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There is no way I could kill a mouse. I use humane traps and can honestly say we haven't had mice for years now. Just used to catch them, have a word in their ear about moving on to the nice field two miles away and escort them there free of charge of course. I once took two mice on a nice car journey to a much better place, Carsington Water :giggle: (y)
 
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Mother had one in her house for a very long time then he went inter her handbag and eat the Turkish delight. Not the chocolate just the jelly bit but his fate was sealed.

A mouse trap in his favourite cupboard.

Next morning one in the trap and another dead alongside my mother was convinced they were boy and girlfriend and the second one died of a broken heart 💔
 
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Took me about 6 weeks of catching lots before the numbers settled down. I now go a week or two between catching one. Got one 2 days ago.
I think the traps are going to be a permanent thing as they breed all year round I believe and produce over 100 young a year.
 
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Simonjdcooper said:
Caught this little fella yesterday.
Is there anything specific to do after you've had rodent squatters?
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Perhaps a warning in the title wouldn’t go amiss. Not everyone wants to see photos of dead animals, regardless of whether you class them as vermin or not.
Thanks 👍🏼
 
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The one thing I have found is the only way to stop them is to find out how they are getting in. I checked everywhere and could find no way in, even going all around the outside of the house checking for holes around windows etc. Then I got it!!! Mr Gina M was letting the dogs out last thing at night and was leaving the door open usually for a hour at a time. Turns out the mice were just running in while he was sitting watching the telly :giggle: soon as he started closing that door at night the mice stopped coming in(y)
 
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Gina M said:
There is no way I could kill a mouse. I use humane traps and can honestly say we haven't had mice for years now. Just used to catch them, have a word in their ear about moving on to the nice field two miles away and escort them there free of charge of course. I once took two mice on a nice car journey to a much better place, Carsington Water :giggle: (y)
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From what I understand ,transferring live wild animals for release elsewhere is not recommended,and in many cases illegal.
Mike.

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BouncyBoatFolk said:
From what I understand ,transferring live wild animals for release elsewhere is not recommended,and in many cases illegal.
Mike.
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I had no idea about that. I did know that I could not release mice onto a housing estate, but I usually just released them onto my own fields. I did turn them around a few times in the traps so they got dizzy and forgot their way back to my house though, before I get complaints just kidding folks :giggle: (y)
 
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One problem with poison is if they die and flies lay eggs - =maggots= more.flies= more maggots.. yadda yadda.
Just trap the little buggers...dead or alive

But please don't use sticky mats..they ARE inhumane.
I came down one morning and it was still struggling, bones sticking out..blood spilt ...poor bugger.
 
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